He has met my expectations that our country would be worse off with him in office.

1:17 pm August 11, 2010

Rachel wrote:

I'll be interested to see if this includes people who already thought he would be a horrible president.

1:18 pm August 11, 2010

John Klaus wrote:

Wow, that the WSJ actually posted this repudiation of what they constantly rage about Obama is better than I thought from them.

I had thought this paper was totally lost, but perhaps this might signal a more honest approach to the subject of spurious polls.

This also says that roughly 70% of the country think obama is doing a good job. Thats 58% (for meets expectations) + 12% (exeeds expectations).

Opps, sort of flys in the face of everything that has been said in this paper for the last year. Let's see if we have some mea culpa's. I wouldn't hold my breath though. The thing about liars like the WSJ is they tend to be unapologetic in their BS.

1:19 pm August 11, 2010

Snowman wrote:

He has certainly met my expectation. I thought he would be miserable and incompetent. Delivered.

1:19 pm August 11, 2010

Not shocked wrote:

I expected Obama to increase spending and taxes and generally drive the country into the ground, so yes, I guess he is meeting my expectations.

1:21 pm August 11, 2010

JimJ wrote:

He has accomplished far more than I expected. All bad, unfortunately. This poll's result is astounding, incredible. Where have 58% of these people got their heads? It is not up, where they can smell the clean, sweet air.

1:21 pm August 11, 2010

Lance wrote:

This is nuts. If asked if he met my expectations, I would answer YES!!. That would put me in the 58% even though I think he is the worst and most dangerous prez in American history.

1:22 pm August 11, 2010

Saki-san wrote:

If one expected him to act as a community organizer, he has met all expectations.

1:22 pm August 11, 2010

Mom and Dad wrote:

Affirmative Action and this White House have disappointed, let down, and embarrassed America, and yet our good people are cutting the incompetent Administration a break.

1:23 pm August 11, 2010

Huh? wrote:

@John Klaus:

How can you say 70% of the country thinks Obama is doing a good job?? How does "meeting expectations" translate into "doing a good job?" You must work the the Democratic party as a spin-doctor. There are a lot of people that expected he would be a poor president and he is now "meeting their expectations."

1:23 pm August 11, 2010

NO BOMMA wrote:

He's everything I would expect from a community organizer, anti-business, leftist radical, muslim.

1:25 pm August 11, 2010

materialist wrote:

With virtually every poll out there showing the President underwater and sinking fast, it appears that some pollster at WSJ has succeeded in phrasing the "approval question" in so stunningly ambiguous a form that the results can be interpreted as approval! Wow!

Like so many of the other commenters here, Obama has, in fact, exceeded my expectations. I thought he would be a poor president. He has turned out to be an absolutely awful one.

1:25 pm August 11, 2010

DUMB wrote:

It was a dumb poll question because Obama would have met the expectations of both those who oppose and those who support his policies. I am surprised the percentage of people who responded that Obama did what they expected is so low. Dumb.

1:26 pm August 11, 2010

John Klaus...Spin Doctor wrote:

@John Klaus:

How can you say 70% of the country thinks "Obama is doing a good job" based on poll results showing he is meeting expectations??? You're assuming people expected him to do a good job when in fact many people expected he would do a poor or terrible job. He is meeting their expectations.

1:26 pm August 11, 2010

gopcon wrote:

look at all the jim crows rearing their ugly heads for ruport in here. arrrrggggg

1:26 pm August 11, 2010

MIlyunair wrote:

He is even more meddling and full of hot air and vanity than expected.

1:27 pm August 11, 2010

JFK wrote:

He has for sure met my expectation that he would lead the country to a socialism path.

1:28 pm August 11, 2010

Yo Mama wrote:

If people expect mediocrity or worse, he certainly met them.

1:28 pm August 11, 2010

goptard wrote:

the CONS in here are wetting their panties over the 58% number.....................these trolls have nothing better to all day than to be the best traitors of this country that they can be.

1:29 pm August 11, 2010

KMarc wrote:

Frankly, a relatively meaningless survey by the WSJ, as these posts point out. It leaves one with absolutely no ability to conclude whether or not America thinks he is doinga good job for the country or not. Rasmussen Reports has his approbval level at all-time lows, with a declining trend line. They apparently ask more direct quesiotns.

1:29 pm August 11, 2010

kodes wrote:

The findings in this poll and others similar to it scare the life out of me - it shows how disconnected the majority of people are from politics and reality.

President Obama in less than two years time has proven himself to be one of the worst presidents in history. He easily surpasses GWB, JC, and RN - as the worst of the worst in modern history - he still has time to improve his standing but it doesn't look good. That should be obvious to anyone capable of independent thought.

1:29 pm August 11, 2010

No value added here wrote:

The results tell us nothing unless you also asked what expectations were. If 50% thought that the country would be worse when led by a President with no executive experience, that is actually pretty bad... WSJ: Fire your analyst.

1:30 pm August 11, 2010

Andrew wrote:

I actually agree with this poll - since I was expecting the Anti-Christ, Obama is about on par with that expectation.

1:30 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

We people want our problems resolved by political and religious leaders. People must accept responsibility and be accounted for their own action. Most politicians do things to win elections. All politician's must have one term limit. Supreme court justice must have a term limit too ( e.g.: 10 year term).

1:31 pm August 11, 2010

GOPukes wrote:

Hey CONS, what was GWB's chimproval ratings when he left office?

1:32 pm August 11, 2010

huim wrote:

testing

1:33 pm August 11, 2010

DarthCheney wrote:

GWB is & forever will be the worst ever.

1:34 pm August 11, 2010

commonlogic wrote:

This "meets expectation" is so bogus. I totally disapprove of Obama but he has performed as I expected him to perform (horribly). This has no positive implications for Obama, yet the main stream media will misinterpret and mislead treating it as approval of Obama.

1:35 pm August 11, 2010

TomB wrote:

Yep, he's pretty much exactly what I expected. That being a total incompetent bent on expanding the federal government to new and terrible levels. Nice work on the poll, WSJ/NBC. Look forward to hearing more of these meaningful stats.

1:35 pm August 11, 2010

Columbo wrote:

Well, half the people are below average. That would explain the good poll results...

1:35 pm August 11, 2010

AntiChrist wrote:

GWB mass murdered 600K civilians in a blood for oil clusterphuck. George W. Bush is the 3rd Anti-Christ & Dick Cheney is the devil incarnate.

1:36 pm August 11, 2010

Mark wrote:

He has met my expectations and exceeded it. I knew he was a left wing radical but I had no idea how bad he was going to be.

1:36 pm August 11, 2010

Anthony wrote:

Anyone who looks to this poll as a mean to validate Obama's performance needs to reread the piece. Just because Obama has met or exceeded expectations for a majority of Americans, does not mean that he is doing a good job. It could easily mean that 70% of Americans expected him to be impeached by now, or even that 70% of people assumed that unemployment would rise to 15% in his first 2 years. Meeting low expectations is hardly anything to get excited about.

1:36 pm August 11, 2010

Akibono wrote:

Dudes, checked the market since the anti-business president got into office? Over the past 20 months, you could be far more critical of this administration for taking care of business at the expense of citizens - who are taking all the hits. How about some intelligent suggestions on what specific steps could be taken to stimulate the economy short term while makeing credible progress on long term structural deficits, or else go cry to redstate.

1:36 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

"Nearly six in ten, 58%, said Obama has done just about what they expected"

That does not mean it is a postive viewpoint. Obama met my expectation of being a far-left incompetent President. So I would be part of that 58%, although clearly in my view it is a huge negative.

1:37 pm August 11, 2010

Scott wrote:

He has exceeded my expectations. I expected horrible and he's been nothing short of abysmal. Makes Jimmy Carter look average to slightly above average.

1:38 pm August 11, 2010

Wut wrote:

I like him but those numbers have to include sarcasm. He can't be at 70% approval.

1:38 pm August 11, 2010

lsmith wrote:

@DarthCheney, assuming you don't have a political agenda, you wouldn't say that if you had lived through the Jimmy Carter administration!

1:39 pm August 11, 2010

The Talented Mr. Ripley wrote:

These comments are quite humorous, especially the anti-christ comment. But seriously - Obama has met my expectations about politicians in general. The sooner you realize your so-called "officials" (both Republicans and Democrats) don't and never have served you, the better off you'll be

Done

1:39 pm August 11, 2010

obamamania wrote:

OBAMA !!! When it really comes down to the crucial moments, Obama wins every time . When 2012 rolls around I'm pretty sure there are going to be some very said righties come election time...

1:39 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Expectation Met & Exceeded-EPIC Fail

1:40 pm August 11, 2010

mikie boy wrote:

dumb question. I expected an empty suit, I got an empty suit, so if asked that question, I'd say he met expectations. Like I say, he asked for the job. If he didn't know things were bad and getting worse, he is not as smart as we're been told. IF he knew it and wanted the job anyway, man up and stop complaining. The Republicans need to win in November; not becasue they will do much better, but to derail the Obama Express. We've stopped trying to lift people up; now, we bring those better off down to the level of those who are not.

1:40 pm August 11, 2010

Twelvis wrote:

I expected bad things from Obama, and indeed, he has met my expectations fully in this negative regard.

1:41 pm August 11, 2010

commonlogic wrote:

If this is to be taken as an approval rating then why is practically every democrat candidate running away from Obama and his record. Even in the most liberal areas democrat candidates are very hesitant to have Obama campaign for them. The question is totally bogus. "Meets expectations" also includes meets LOW OR NEGATIVE EXPECTATIONS! Case closed.

1:42 pm August 11, 2010

Paul wrote:

Aside from the reasons mentioned above why this poll is useless, it's particularly useless because it's basically asking people to admit that their hindsight predictions about the President were off. It's hardly shocking that such a large number of Americans know how to play Monday-morning quarterback. "That play that just happened. Did you think when you saw the playcall that this would be the result?" "Oh sure, Bob. That's exactly what I thought would happen". C'mon now...

1:42 pm August 11, 2010

secondgen wrote:

On whom was the poll taken, Obama's Cabinet.

1:43 pm August 11, 2010

KMarc wrote:

Hey Akibono - Look at uneployment - i.e. employers confidence in the future as measured by the willingness to invest. This Obama guy is a clown. He should be a college professor somewhere and let America rebuild America instead of government.

1:43 pm August 11, 2010

mikie boy wrote:

The Talented Mr. Ripley: your comment pretty much sums it up unfortunately.

1:44 pm August 11, 2010

Ben wrote:

Obama is the best President EVER in my life time and he has achieved more than the past 5 president combined e.g. Healthcare, Education funding, Financial Regulation, Stabilization of the worst Recession ever...2nd to the Great depression, foreighn policy by drawing down the troops in Iraq (Crazy war) but has fallen short in Afganistan and hope he starts pulling out next year or else we are doomed.

1:47 pm August 11, 2010

Steve wrote:

Wow!

This is how statistics lie! Meeting expectations is not always good.

I expected he'd be initially popular and eventually people would grow sick of him, remove his congressional majority and eventually kick him out of office.

They have grown sick of him much more quickly than I thought, so my expectations have been greatly exceeded.

WoooHooo!! Mr. President!!!

1:48 pm August 11, 2010

g.t.hammer wrote:

Ok now lets run a pole with the people that have JOBS. The WSJ is publishing JUNK OBAMA is not doing his JOB, he's lied about everything and has accomplished 0 ! ! !

1:50 pm August 11, 2010

James Lane wrote:

What an incredibly poor polling question if your goal is to actually find out anything about the public's approval of the President and his policies. Amazingly, however, he has not met my expectations, which were decidedly low. He actually turned out to be worse than I thought he would be at the time of his election.

1:50 pm August 11, 2010

Kevin in Kansas wrote:

Is this poll for real? In a way, he's met my expectations: I expected him to force socialism on this country; I expected him to screw up everything he touches; I expect him to continue his pursuit of destroying this nation.

1:50 pm August 11, 2010

Wayne wrote:

Obama has done much more than I expected that he would do. And that is a very, very bad thing.

1:52 pm August 11, 2010

Felix in CA wrote:

John Klaus is an idiot.

This dumb poll is another example of the liberals who run the WSJ News Division trying to support Obama
the Socialist (or worse). Teaming up with Immelt's left wing NBC to deceive the public is shameful.

It's time to clean up the WSJ News group and send them all packing to the New York Times and Nation.

1:52 pm August 11, 2010

Mike Kowalczyk wrote:

From this I conclude that the majority of Americans prefer a public servant, President Obama, willing to make a good faith effort when faced with: two unfunded wars, an economy in complete meltdown, an education system in need of repair, federal infrastructure needing resources and attention...over cynical party-before-country politicians like Boehner, Joe Wilson, Gingrich, Bachmann et al, who choose to stoke fears and anger for financial and political gain instead of taking action. We pay Republican congress people a salary to govern in this manner? I work hard and pay taxes for this? If it weren't for President Obama, I'd demand my money back.

1:54 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Please. I know of no one....roughly half of whom voted for BHO, who still supports him. the people who did not vote for him are seriously scared of his policies, the half who did vote for him are almost to the leve of being ashamed of supporting him... they supported him for the wrong reasons (not wanting to be called a racist for one and as a vote against W Bush also)
Honestly, thiis is as ridiculous as MSNBC stating that the right wing were the ones who were saying that W Bush was like Htiler when it was clear that those demonstrators were screaming hateful far left rhetoric. Pure bias.

1:56 pm August 11, 2010

tc2428 wrote:

Incredibly misleading poll. What the poll does not clarify is what those expectations were.

President Obama has indeed met my expectations; but then my expectations for him were for continued high unemployment, unfunded expensive programs, government growth, disingenuous misdirection, unfriendly business policies, lowering the stature of America in the world, etc.

For Mike Kowalczyk,
What part of the federal government do you work in?
What is your salary?
What is your guaranteed pension?
How much did you contribute to Obama's campaign?
What is your definition of "working hard"?

1:59 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

As a rank amature he certainly met my low expectations.

The Big 0 and his wife posess great disdain when being forced to mingle with the great unwashed. Here is a man with a vain messiah complex coupled with a plantation mentality.

How's that Hopey Changey stuff workin' out for you?

1:59 pm August 11, 2010

Bob wrote:

So... the first question is; "Do you like Obama?" Those who answer 'yes' can take the rest of the poll.

2:00 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

I expected him to be terrible for the country. He is. Does that mean he has "met my expectations?"

This "poll" is a joke.

2:00 pm August 11, 2010

Park McGraw wrote:

As a very general response, it's not surprising that nearly half the people in this country find Mr. Obama's performance agreeable for by statistic, half the population will have lower standards for acceptable performance. Compounding the problem that just about anyone can vote in this country, backwards to what our forefathers intended. As a result, half of the population with below average intelligence are still voting members of the populous. This country is a Constitutional Republic - NOT A DEMOCRAY. It's a perversion of this truth, that let women and uneducated men to have an unchecked right to vote. The start of our countries demise as our delusional country no longer has the wisdom to function on logic and will continue to diminish. More indication that the privilege of voting has to be earned.

2:01 pm August 11, 2010

Elliott W wrote:

Flawed Poll. This appears to be the classic push poll that Keith Obermann and Chris Matthews gets wet over.

For a real poll, try Rasmussen's Daily Tracking Poll. The Pres has a 22% gap.

A year and a half into his presidency, and just months head of the midterm elections, President Barack Obama's approval rating is 44 percent, according to the latest CBS News Poll, conducted July 9-12. This rating matches his previous low from March of this year, and is down 24 points from his high of 68 percent reached in April 2009. So how does President Obama stack up against past presidents at similar points in their presidencies?

At 44 percent, Mr. Obama's approval rating is similar to those of Bill Clinton (42 percent) and Ronald Reagan (42 percent) at comparable times in their presidencies. Mr. Obama's rating is slightly higher than Jimmy Carter's (38 percent).

Like Mr. Obama, these past presidents were plagued by economic troubles early in their presidencies - and Mr. Clinton attempted to reform health care. During the summer of 1982, President Reagan was trying to cope with a national unemployment rate of over 9 percent -- similar to the job situation Mr. Obama confronts today.

As is traditionally the case, these three presidents -- Reagan, Clinton and Carter -- saw their party lose seats in the midterm elections during their first term. In 1994, during Clinton's presidency, the Democrats lost a net of 54 seats in Congress, paving the way for the "Republican Revolution".

2:02 pm August 11, 2010

Dissapointed in the WSJ wrote:

How can the WSJ post this after just posting an article that made him look like a bafoon. Unbelievable. Get an opinion and stick with it. Quit writing he is doing bad then saying he isn't.

2:05 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Are you kidding ?!
The poll must have been taken from the "brain dead".
Obama is a genuine DISASTER, a TRAIN WRECK !
It is very difficult to locate any of the 53% who voted fro his Election. Few admit to it !

2:05 pm August 11, 2010

Dissapointed in the WSJ wrote:

Didn't you just post the article "Obsolescence of OBAMA". Now he meets excpectations?

2:07 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

The term "Meeting expectations" leaves a positive connotation, whereas in thinking about it further, what are the expectations? This Poll tells nothing, and for the "Skim" reader might appear to be positive. WSJ is another news source trying to save the Presidency after the Citizenship conviction trial?

2:07 pm August 11, 2010

neh wrote:

The Democrats ran their candidate, Hilary Clinton, and she lost to an outsider! Obama! He was an outsider who completely flummoxed and confused the traditional Democratic machine. I, like many, voted for him for change in a government that is broken. Sadly, the Democratic party thought this was a mandate, but it was not. America looks far more like the Democratic Convention that the Republican Convention, but it should be noted that America has not and will not be embracing liberalism and socialism. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Dianne Feinstein and others need to realize that their political ideals and special interests did not win.

DNC, this is uncharted territory! Wake up and realize that there are new political realities and the future does not look like the past. Obama is the TRANSITIONAL CANDIDATE. He will curry more favor in 2012 than his "fellow" Democrats will in 2010

N~

2:08 pm August 11, 2010

Andrew wrote:

As has been pointed out, this poll is useless. Meeting expectations is exactly that, meeting expectations. What those expectations were vary immensely.

Strongly agree that President Obama has met my expectations, in that he has pursued the enactment of the agenda he campaigned on, with a success rate tempered by the effect of a severe recession at its depths when he took office.
Also agree that Congress has met expectations, given the decades-long deterioration of the national and Washington political climate, and the unanimous consent rules of the Senate, which allows minority parties to block action even against 60-vote majorities.
Governing in tough economic times is always tough, and always requires unpopular decisions. As president, Barack Obama has raised the stature of the presidency with his pragmatism and principles. Congress has, with few exceptions, simply reflected the mood of the people and the tenor of the times.

Obama has done a great job, given the conditions and circumstances he inherited. The right is making a lot of noise (which, don't get me wrong, is a good thing in a functioning free society), but the silent majority of America has spoken through this poll.

2:15 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

The trouble with the poll, as others have clearly pointed out, is that "expectations" is not necessarily a positive word.

Anyone that tries to draw a conclusion from this article is just as stupid.

2:16 pm August 11, 2010

Hammurabi wrote:

@Dissapointed in the WSJ:
The Journal, as an objective news-source, should report facts not opinions. I am not saying the WSJ is perfect in being an objective source, however I am defending their posting of two articles which offer different perspectives and metrics with regards to Obama's quality as president.
To suggest that a newspaper "Get an opinion and stick with it," is completely ludicrous. This line of thinking would suggest that our sources of information only report stories which support a single perspective, while disregarding all stories that run counter to that perspective.
A newspaper at its best presents as much of the truth as best as it possibly can.

2:18 pm August 11, 2010

Finnbob wrote:

What do you mean -- "met expectations"? There could be positive or negative expectations of this Manchurian Candidate. I hope you are not implying that nearly 60% of WSJ readers think this bozo is doing a good job! If so, cancel my subscription!

2:18 pm August 11, 2010

DaveH wrote:

Obama HAS met my expectations. He's ruining the country just as I "expected."

2:19 pm August 11, 2010

What Matters wrote:

The truth is WSJ usually doesn't like to cast OBAMA in a good light. So if they are putting this news forward still, that shows you hate monggers that it is a true poll. Accept the fact that the same American voters that put him in the white house are still solidly behind him. THIS MEANS YOU CAN CRY TILL YOU'RE BLUE IN THE FACE, IT WON'T CHANGE A THING. HE IS STILL GOING TO BE PRESIDENT EVEN FOR THE NEXT TERM. AMEN.

2:19 pm August 11, 2010

DaveH wrote:

Obama has met my expectations. He's ruining the country just as I expected he would. What kind of wool-gathering poll is that?

2:21 pm August 11, 2010

David in OK wrote:

When a patient has a terminal illness and dies, he has met his doctor's expectations 100% of the time. so what was the point of this poll?

2:21 pm August 11, 2010

Michael wrote:

President Obama is doing a great job, he's stepping on alot of toes on the right but that is exactly what is needed after the right ran our country into the dirt.

2:22 pm August 11, 2010

Frediano wrote:

"Nearly six in ten, 58%, said Obama has done just about what they expected"

As nearly everyone has pointed out, that doesn't necessarily mean anything positive. As well, it was apparent long before the Nov 2008 election that Obama was going to win.

The contraction in the private sector beginning in 2008 was at least partially a look ahead to the knowledge that yet another train was freshly running out of FDR station.

Hopefully, the last.

2:23 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous Long Time Reader wrote:

Obama has an approval rating of something like 44% so the vast majority do not approve of his performance. To say that Obama meets expectations is meaningless unless you define what those expectations are. Apparently most people thought that after the election Obama would really mess things up and set the Country on the wrong course……now, we see that he is MEETING OUR EXPECTATION and doing just that!

2:23 pm August 11, 2010

Fired Yet? wrote:

Have the pollsters who did this been fired yet or they included in the 'jobs saved' category of Obama's Stimulus Plan?

2:24 pm August 11, 2010

Old Indie wrote:

It is not clear what this poll means. I think Obama is the worst President since Jimmy Carter. The facts agree with my assessment.

Did he meet my expectations? YES. After his say-nothing campaign, the Moonie types who campaigned for him, and the whole Rev. Wright incident, Obama is what I thought he would be. A Chicago political hack.

Count me in the 'met expectations' column.

2:24 pm August 11, 2010

Independent wrote:

I "expected" 2.5 million Americans to lose their jobs, despite trillons in stimulus bill spending, under Obama. What else would you expect when a liberal community organizer, with no experience, is put into an Executive Office.

Cherry picking the items in the poll to post? The big question in a poll is not expectations it is whether or not they approve of what he did. Across the board all of the surveys say the nation does not approve or hold his actions in a favorable light. Nice try to spin for your Messiah. As a matter of fact in Rasmussen, Survey USA, Qunnipiac, and PPP he has hit new lows.

2:27 pm August 11, 2010

Jumpy wrote:

Gotta love the ludicrous and hysterical accusations of the Rupert Murdoch-owned WSJ as "leftist media." HA HA HA! You wingnut Cons are always good for a laugh!

2:27 pm August 11, 2010

MadBag wrote:

Like the "right track-wrong track" poll question, this doesn't provide real information. Most conservative voters in 2008 will probably say POTUS Obama is meeting their expectations -- doing bad things incompetently. While most liberal voters would agree that he is essentially meeting their expectations, even if only by allowing Congress to write and pass their version of his campaign promises. Only the independents might say he isn't meeting their expectations, no matter which side of the vote they were on.

2:28 pm August 11, 2010

Nic wrote:

huh?

2:31 pm August 11, 2010

Roy Hill wrote:

Obama totally meet and probably exceed my expectations. I expected him to speak out of both sides of his mouth - tell people what they wanted to hear. I think he has excelled at that - he exceeded my expectations... The unfortunate thing about polls - people that take polls answer questions that the polls ask. I have not yets seen the questions, but I would expect the poll left out a few questions I would have asked about "expectations". This poll's numbers does not correlate with his current public "dis-approval" rating.numbers.

2:35 pm August 11, 2010

CalTex wrote:

He has met my expectations precisely. He has pushed a liberal agenda through a liberal congress consisting of significant movements toward universal health care, government funded higher education, and support of unionized agencies and business. Thankfully, he has not met my expectations on cap & trade.

I will say that he has done it with even less graciousness than I expected.

2:35 pm August 11, 2010

America wrote:

Who were you guys poling? Was it a pictionary poll?

2:36 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Obama is the best president this country ever had. He is certainly the most hardworking even the record shows. Unlike some others like the previous one. Total waste of 8 years. If he stood watch and guarded this country like his job was supposed to be, we won't be in this mess now and he would have spent most of his time putting into effect ideas that would make us seriously compete with China and India and all. Now BUSH left OBAMA with using his first term doing damage control. Its just like a foreign country fires missiles after missiles into the air. NORAD and the NAVY warned a president that intending doom is heading our way. Instead of him to do all he could to avert tragedy, the president takes a vacation and tells everyone everything is fine. That is what PRESIDENT BUSH did. WE ARE NOT STUPID. WE KNOW HOW HE NEGLETED HIS JOB. WHAT A LAZY CORRUPT GOVT he ran. By the way, missiles have a point that you cannot intersect them anymore when they've gone so far along. When OBAMA now takes the batton, he gets to work organizing the ( e.g in this analog) NORAD and the NAVY to stop any more missiles from taking off from where they were being sent one after another. Now that new ones have been stopped from taking off, we now have to deal with those still flying in the air. That is the aftermath of the BUSH ADMINISTRATION. That is why he is no more there and we are still seeing the effect. SIMPLE COMMON SENSE IS WHAT THESE HATERS AND THE GOPs really need to use and they would clearly see that this PRESIDENT IS REALLY BREAKING HIS BACK FOR AMERICA. GET YOUR BLINDERS OFF and see clearly.

2:36 pm August 11, 2010

Chuck wrote:

What a load of BS! They must of conducted this poll around 2 am in the morning when everyone was sleeping......just like the passage of OBAMACARE.

2:37 pm August 11, 2010

Mike Wazowski wrote:

Either the expectations were really really low that a 1 year old can jump over them or we have some really clueless voters. No wonder Obama spends like a drunken sailor because his constituents really don't care about what he does but about what he looks like...

2:37 pm August 11, 2010

Ken Pulvino wrote:

The WSJ needs to clarify the poll questions and indicate whether "meets expectations" include those who expected Obama to ruin the country. I am surprised that this important variable was not included in the analysis of the poll results. Did WSJ let NBC right the survey questions or what? Without that clarification the survey is pretty much meaningless.

2:37 pm August 11, 2010

thedom wrote:

Mongo is completely correct. Obama has put a face to empty suit. And correct of his personality. In Obama's mind it is never his fault or responsibility if something goes wrong. "He can't suck it up with a straw". Unbelievable. Congress is one of the worst and this President is only signing and doing what Pelosi, Barney, Reid, and Todd (Moe, Larry, and Curley) tell him to do.
Please November come soon.

2:40 pm August 11, 2010

Jot wrote:

"Obama has an approval rating of something like 44% so the vast majority do not approve of his performance. To say that Obama meets expectations is meaningless"

I tend to agree with those who say that the 59% responders who believe that Obama is meeting expectation includes those who expected the worst. However, the 29% who responded that Obama did worst than expected, probably cover most of those who will never see anything he does of any value. Moreover, the 44% approval rating quoted by anonymous, does not necesserily signify that a majority disapproves of Obama for the same reason many of the bloggers believe . Some who disapprove of Obama do so because they are unsatisfied with his failure to undo the last 8 years. The polls aside, this is a country that has been divided fairly evenly for some time, with a small group making the electoral difference, often based on nonsensical issues.

2:40 pm August 11, 2010

teoc2 wrote:

cool...thousands of members of the Republican Teabagger Party—many of whom who have already posted here with their typical and tired rhetoric—will be eating their spleens later this evening.

could happen to a more deserving bunch

2:48 pm August 11, 2010

Hairy Screed wrote:

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll at -22, an all tile low.

They must only have polled Libtards.

2:51 pm August 11, 2010

Jon wrote:

He has lived up to my expectations. I thought he was a socialist/Marxist who disliked America and he has proven me right.

2:55 pm August 11, 2010

Jon wrote:

It says "58%, said Obama has done just about what they expected." That is not the same as saying they approve of Obama! I expect a drunk driver to get in a wreck, but I don't approve of it.

3:00 pm August 11, 2010

Erma Bombeck wrote:

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

3:19 pm August 11, 2010

Jim wrote:

I voted for Obama and I can't say he/his administration have lived up to my expectations. But he is 1000 times superior to what came before, and I guess that skews perception.

3:43 pm August 11, 2010

Ace (WNY) wrote:

He has increased spending and because of what he has done the next President will have to increase Taxes. If your spending increases double or triple, you need GDP to do the same. There are to many people out there that do not understand economics. How does this President expect us to pay this debt off without increasing taxes. This economy will not increase without globalization at this point. In the great depression we bounced back because it was a different scenario. In this economy we depend on other countries to much, so we will need to see the world economy to get better before we see an improvement. Spending is not the way it will only hurt us, this problem will need much time maybe the next 10 years to fix itself.

3:45 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Jim I am with you. He is 1000 better than Bush and his tough stance on parties, groups and special interests that ruined the economy is why they put out the word on him to incite their base against him. THE REASON: They want to put back in there their puppet so things can go back to their normal where a few take advantage of the whole country. EAT THAT REPUBLICANS.

3:47 pm August 11, 2010

CB wrote:

I'm with Jon.

3:54 pm August 11, 2010

Catherine wrote:

The wording in the poll couldn't have been worse!! If a pollster asked me if Obama met my expectations I would have responded "yes" because he has. My expectations of the Fraud-in-Chief was that he would raise deficit spending, inhibit personal liberty, and generally screw the entire economy up. So, yes, he has met my expectations in that way. However, I don't think the poll results reflect that viewpoint.

4:16 pm August 11, 2010

RP wrote:

@ Catherine - Exactly!

4:50 pm August 11, 2010

Robert wrote:

Obama for president 2012!!! I'm one of the 12% that think he has done "better than expected". But guess after the last president ran the country into the ground, all Obama had to do was show up to work and he would have been better than expected.

4:53 pm August 11, 2010

Michael wrote:

Worse President EVER!!!!!!

4:56 pm August 11, 2010

Robert wrote:

@ Ace Look up why the Bush tax cuts had to expire in 2010 and you will know why we have to raise taxes. If anyone screwed us, it was Bush.

5:21 pm August 11, 2010

Paul H wrote:

Catherine-

Exactly! He totally has met my expectations...which were really low to begin with. I would say even my expectations about congress were met....unfrotunately

5:24 pm August 11, 2010

Paul H wrote:

unfortunately*.... whoops

5:48 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Arrogant, pompous, duplicitous, inexperienced, biased, failing.... Yes, he has met my expectations.
My next expectation is for him to go.

6:15 pm August 11, 2010

So what wrote:

What were the exact questions?

Interesting to read comments that are based on incomplete information.

Just another poll will not change people's minds about the President.

6:58 pm August 11, 2010

Danyel wrote:

Who is the moron polster who came up with this vague/misleading question?

7:04 pm August 11, 2010

Ethan wrote:

Obama has been an EXCELLENT President.

Pretty funny that most of you think the exact same way. "He met my expectations of being a ___________"

Haha. Sheep. Baaaaaaaa!

Most of you probably wrote in for Bush's Third Term you liked him so much. Buncha pathetic dead enders and know-nothings here on WSJ board. So typical.

7:39 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, he has lived up to the expectations of every parasitic leach, dependant on government for their well-being. And, yes, he has done what every free thinking achiever believed he would do.

7:54 pm August 11, 2010

spell wrote:

leech, dependent.....

achiever you?

9:01 pm August 11, 2010

WhatThe wrote:

ECD says it’s pushing ahead with plans to use the $13 million stimulus tax credit it received to upgrade other parts of its Auburn Hills operations to produce a new, more efficient line of solar cells. When ECD announced the Department of Energy award, it said the $42 million project would create about 600 additional jobs in Michigan.
GOOD – MICHIGAN NEEDS JOBS – it's too bad they will most likely be SEIU/ACORN/their affiliates jobs – they were very instrumental to getting Obama and his administration elected, and they were paid with taxpayer stimulus stolen dollars, and most likely the corruption will continue because people are more interested in whose got talent than forced union dues, or the Beck clause.
---- SEIU website supports nearly every socialistic/totalitarian agenda spewed by this administration, as does other partners in crime, such as ACORN. Could the teacher, and federal employee perks be a buy out? It seems no one cares – we continue to allow obvious intrusions on our freedoms - Rather than give cuts to private entities, dollars are stolen from private America to support teachers, firefighters, etc. that are federal/union/give me, I deserve it entities; there's no question that teachers, firefighters, and others deserve appropriate pay for services --- but private America is paying for public services – union/federally protected pay – pay for services comparable to private services, - with pay and benefits most private people will never see. To add to the tax burden the federal bureaucrats have more perks, special interest, and waste projects that if the dollars were in the hands of private individuals, monies could really stimulate the economy.
People just slightly involved in politics are constantly getting insulted by bureaucrats stating “the rich can afford to pay higher taxes” while completely ignoring that rich federal bureaucrats are more than likely the most corrupt, and not about to agree to any cuts in their benefits/pay/perks provided by the evil, rich corporate, CAPITALISTIC America. Corporate America is at the mercy of the rich federal bureaucrats, but who does the rich federal bureaucrats answer to? Corporate America and the federal government seem to have a symbiotic relationship, but the federal government, judging by their seek and destroy capitalism actions, want the power and control.

But NEVER FEAR, SUSTAINABLE LIVING IS HERE 2010-08-09 at articlesbase-com - click on news and society in articles category and enter title in search box; -enter IS OBAMA A SOCIALIST? and listed is: Brief Biography Of Barack Obama, Obama is the gray man, born and great in the cultural crossroads that make him find difficulty at the beginning of the period of his life. Son of a Kenyan with jet and mother of United States with as white as milk, grew up in a simple ... Feb 26, 2009; another heading is - A list of family, friends, and advisers that can be/are linked to socialism, or total government control. - enter - POWER CORRUPTS; ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY 2010-08-04 - The RAT board --- this is an appropriate acronym. A provision included in the stimulus bill, has the job to oversee in-house watchdogs, known as inspectors general - Their job was to INDEPENDENTLY investigate allegations of wrongdoing at various federal agencies, without fear of interference by the White House or political appointees. Now it seems the White House has control of inspectors generals. -enter THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS 2010-07-28 - Climate legislation could be have a symbiotic relationship with Goldman Sachs, many of Sachs ex-employees are bureaucrats working in the White House; -enter IS THERE ENOUGH TIME FOR VOTING REFORMATION ? 2010-07-30 - There is a lot of corruption in the election process – if election reforms aren't in place, in November the will of the American citizens may once again get bypassed. The Democrats, as a whole seem to not know what most Americans know, and Democrats keep passing any bill that is sponsored by their party --- they are still playing by the same old rules, but the results are killing CAPITALISTIC/PRIVATE enterprise, basically free America; -enter NEVER FEAR, SUSTAINABLE LIVING IS HERE 2010-08-09 The "gifted" federal government is once again flexing their muscles – and taxpayer dollars will be used to increase federal power, instead of state power.
THE PRIVATE SECTOR SHOULD CONTROL THEIR DESTINY, THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT, NOT FORCED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
~ Thomas Jefferson

9:44 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Obama is meeting expectations in his first term like Bush met his expectations in the 2nd term.

10:07 pm August 11, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

So which expectations did he meet?

The article is not very consistent.

Sorry wsj/ww but you do not meet expectations.

10:12 pm August 11, 2010

WTH? wrote:

@9:01 What the........

heck is that logorrhea all about?

1:34 pm August 12, 2010

Rich wrote:

ANd where did they take this poll in San Fransico? Seems even the Holloywood types have had enough of Obama's brand of government . . .keep reading . .it gets funnier.

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree—and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
--Jay Leno

Thanks for the link, the results of the poll show that there was some improvement for the democratic party and President Obama in August compared with the poll results of June this year. The republicans and tea party appear to be losing ground.

7:42 pm August 12, 2010

Details wrote:

Findings released in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll suggest that the Republican Party is very much a Southern regional white party in terms of the demographics of its supporters.

The GOP has a HUGE generic-ballot edge in the South (52%-31%), but it doesn't lead anywhere else. In the Northeast, Dems have a 55%-30% edge; in the Midwest, they lead 49%-38%; and in the West, it's 44%-43%.
MSNBC notes that many of the races in which Republicans stand to make electoral gains are taking place in the South "where you have whiter and older voters," or in congressional districts with Southern-like constituencies.

Earlier this year, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele raised eyebrows when he suggested the GOP for decades has pursued a "'Southern Strategy' that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South."

Speaking at DePaul University, Steele -- the first African-American to chair the RNC -- told a group of students that African-Americans "don't have a reason" to vote for Republican candidates.

12:56 am August 13, 2010

DarthVader wrote:

All of the spin in the world is not going to spare President Obozo and this incompetent, arrogant Congress the absolute thrashing they are going to get in November. It is going to be fun to watch the deluded liberals in this country melt down when this happens.

1:53 am August 13, 2010

tess wrote:

Do you think this man cares that he has impuned our Constitution?
Do you thiknk that no one ever told him when he was governing contrary to our Constitution?
Do you think this OBAMA fellow would ever correct himself when a 'wrong' was pointed out?
Let's face it - - - THE MAN NEVER CARED ABOUT AMERICA OR ITS PEOPLE!

1:29 pm August 13, 2010

Rt 66 wrote:

I "impune" and "refudiate" the comment @ 1:53.

RIDICULOUS

4:12 pm August 16, 2010

Mona wrote:

To Tess: When you suggest the President has impuned the constitution I would like to know how. He is a constitutional lawyer so he knows the constitution probably better than you do. He was elected by a wide majority of people and everything he has done is constitutional. How you can make such a ridiculous statement that he doesn't care about the country or its' people is shameful. I'm certain you do not know personally so you are just venting your venom. Shame on you.

4:13 pm August 16, 2010

Mona wrote:

To Darth Vader: your mind obviously is as dark as your user name.

12:40 am August 17, 2010

impeach the dictator! wrote:

AAwww come on Mona its gotta hurt that Obambi and his globaliist cohorts are failing bew hahahaaa haha!

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